4.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Dave Martin <dave.mar...@arm.com>

commit 228dbbfb5d77f8e047b2a1d78da14b7158433027 upstream.

Ensure that if userspace supplies insufficient data to
PTRACE_SETREGSET to fill all the registers, the thread's old
registers are preserved.

Fixes: 5be6f62b0059 ("ARM: 6883/1: ptrace: Migrate to regsets framework")
Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <dave.mar...@arm.com>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+ker...@armlinux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+ker...@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/arm/kernel/ptrace.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/arm/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -600,7 +600,7 @@ static int gpr_set(struct task_struct *t
                   const void *kbuf, const void __user *ubuf)
 {
        int ret;
-       struct pt_regs newregs;
+       struct pt_regs newregs = *task_pt_regs(target);
 
        ret = user_regset_copyin(&pos, &count, &kbuf, &ubuf,
                                 &newregs,


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